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Emma Donoghue on Hamilton, Writer’s Block, and Giving Up on War and Peace
Emma Donoghue’s Akin is out now from Little Brown. * What do you always want to talk about in interviews but never get to? I’m going to sound like a geek here, but the questions I love are the...
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Lit Hub Recommends: Nell Zink, Jia Tolentino, and Jane the Virgin
The night before two terrorists entered the office of the French satirical publication Charlie Hedbo and killed 12 people, injuring 11 more, contributor Philippe Lançon attended a showing of Twelfth...
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Dead Men of Leisure on Their Love of Fishing
The following are from A Twitch Upon the Thread: Writers on Fishing, available now from NYRB. Charles Dickens From A Dictionary of the Thames (1893) Sturgeon occasionally come up the Thames, but they...
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Can Climate Fiction Be… Hopeful?
Alex DiFrancesco’s All City and Ashley Shelby’s Muri both examine the repercussions of climate change in the lives of their characters. DiFrancesco and Shelby discussed the ways in which the climate...
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Here is the Young People’s Literature Longlist for the 2019 National Book...
The National Book Foundation has announced the ten books longlisted for this year’s National Book Award in Young People’s Literature, chosen from a total of 325 books submitted to the foundation by...
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Kevin Barry on the Need to Sustain Our Literature
Kevin Barry’s Night Boat to Tangier is out now from Doubleday. * What do you always want to talk about in interviews but never get asked? About exactly how important it is that we sustain our...
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Here is the Translated Literature Longlist for the 2019 National Book Awards.
Day two of the National Book Foundation’s longlist announcements; today, the Translated Literature Longlist, a category that was added just last year. Publishers submitted a total of 145 books. The...
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Here are the 10 best lines from Vulture’s profile of “book-fluencer” Zibby...
First, can we all agree that it should be “lit-fluencer”? Moving on: 1. “Gertrude Stein had time to read books. But do moms?” 2. “Owens’s dinner will be in a decidedly lower key: a gingham tablecloth,...
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Here’s the 2019 National Book Award Longlist for Poetry.
It’s day three of the National Book Foundation’s longlist announcements; today they’ve announced the list for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry. Publishers submitted a total of 245 books to be...
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Here is the 2019 Longlist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Day four of the National Book Foundations’ longlist announcements; today we’re looking at the ten titles judges Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Carolyn Kellogg, Mark Laframboise, Kiese Laymon, and Jeff Sharlet...
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Here is the 2019 Longlist for the National Book Award for Fiction.
It’s here: the final day of the National Book Foundations’ longlist announcements. Yep, it’s time for the fiction list, as chosen by judges Dorothy Allison, Ruth Dickey, Javier Ramirez, Danzy Senna...
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Live at the Red Ink Series: on the Writer’s Quest for Authenticity
Red Ink is a quarterly series curated and hosted by Michele Filgate at Books are Magic, focusing on women writers, past and present. The next conversation, “Secrets,” will take place on September 26th...
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Here are the seven shortlisted debut novels for the 2019 Center for Fiction...
Lit Hub is excited to announce the shortlist for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. This year’s judging panel included Tommy Orange, Emma Straub, Monique Truong, Maaza Mengiste, and Claire...
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Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month
From essays to interviews, excerpts and reading lists, we publish around 200 features a month. And though we’re proud of each week’s offerings, we do have our personal favorites. Below are some of our...
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Jeanette Winterson and Mark O’Connell on the Future of Humanity in a...
With one eye on our inevitable techno-future, Jeanette Winterson and Mark O’Connell had a conversation over Google Docs about Mary Shelley, transhumanism, AI, and the human dream to transcend humanity....
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12 Books You Should Read This October
Ben Lerner, The Topeka School (FSG) If Ferrante is the class president of autofiction, and Knausgaard the quarterback (bear with me, it’s fall and I love school), then Lerner is the valedictorian—and...
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The Best of the University Press: Recommendations for Smarter Reading
This November, pick up a university press book—or two—to learn more about the issues of the day. That’s the hope of the international university press organization AUPresses, which celebrates the...
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Here are the winners of this year’s $40k Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grants.
Today, the Whiting Foundation announced its 2019 grantees of the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grants, which aims to “foster original, ambitious projects that bring writing to the highest possible...
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The 2019 National Book Award Finalists are…
Here are the 25 finalists up for the National Book Awards in of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature: Finalists for Fiction: Susan Choi, Trust Exercise...
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Lit Hub Recommends: Stevie Nicks, Aimee Bender, and The Yellow House
Dark, Netflix’s first original German-language series, is batshit. Take the small-town murder mystery of Twin Peaks (minus the kitschy humor), the transhistorical religious conspiracism of The Da...
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